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PROFESSOR JANET
WALKER
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada
Janet Walker teaches Conflict of
Laws and International Dispute Resolution in the LLB and
Part-time LLM Programs, and she has taught Civil Procedure and
International Business Transactions. She has served as
Associate Dean, Director of the Part-time LLM in Litigation
and Dispute Resolution, Convener of the Litigation, Dispute
Resolution and the Administration of Justice Stream, and
Director of the Mooting Program.
Professor Walker is the author of
Castel and Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws (6 ed),
and the Halsbury’s Laws of Canada volume on the Conflict
of Laws; she is the General Editor of The Civil
Litigation Process (6 ed), the editor of The Vis Book,
and a co-author of A Practical Guide to Mooting and
the forthcoming Irwin Essentials series volume on Civil
Procedure. Many of her articles on the subject of
cross-border litigation and arbitration can be found at http://research.osgoode.yorku.ca/walker
Professor Walker has lectured in
Wuhan and Xi’an, and she has taught Conflict of Laws as a
visitor at Monash, Haifa and Toronto, as a Hauser Global
Visiting Professor at NYU in New York and in the joint program
with NUS in Singapore, and for the past seven years, as a
Foreign Research Professor at the University of Carthage in
Tunisia. She gave a series of lectures at The Hague Academy of
International Law in 2005 and she co-chaired the 72nd Biennial
Conference of the International Law Association in 2006.
Professor Walker has served as an
ICC arbitrator in various matters and she is active in the
international arbitration community. She is the common law
advisor to the Federal Courts Rules Committee. She has served
as an International Advisor to the American Law Institute in
its project with Unidroit to develop Principles and Rules of
Transnational Civil Procedure; and as a member of the Uniform
Law Conference of Canada Committee on National Class Actions,
of the IBA Task Force on Guidelines on Recognition and
Enforcement of Collective Redress Judgments, of the ILA
Committee on International Civil Litigation, and of the ABA
Canada/US Class Action Protocol Project. She has been elected
Vice-President of the Canadian Branch of the International Law
Association, and a member of the American Law Institute, of
the Council of the International Association of Procedural
Law, and of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on
International Law.
Click
here for Professor Walker’s full bio (pdf).
Areas of interest: International
Litigation and Arbitration, Comparative Procedure, Advocacy
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